I took over a 3 year long project. The previous programmer painted himself into a corner and found me. I showed my work to the client. The other programmer was retiring. In 4 months, I rebuilt his 3 years work. During the next 8 months, I finished and expanded the project for a total of $80k. Client independently rewrote the system within the last 3 years at a cost of $600,000 so far. This is all too common.
On Wed, Oct 16, 2024, 6:33 p.m. Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > On 2024-10-15 16:00, Jonathan Chapman-Moore via Cygwin wrote: > > I've always wondered why software has maintainers not set forth by their > graduating universities. > > Ability to communicate clearly in English is a prerequsite. > I suspect all software has maintainers who have been set forth in their > diplomas > by their graduating universities. > > > I am a 2000 computer science graduate. > > Do you mean high school, community college, university, postgrad, or > something > else? > > > With straight A's in prep school I disapprove of the lists on Cygwin > > Who cares what you got in elementary school, or did you prep for some > later > grade of education? > > Perhaps you could state why and in what manner you disapprove of which > lists? > > > As I would like to be a IceWM maintainer but not with every other stock > boy in America without a > > Computer science degree. > > It requires a fair amount of maturity and experience with production > software > design, development, and maintenance, the common toolchain, and desire to > improve, support, or provide packages that do not increase the burden on > other > developers, packagers, or users, to be a maintainer. > > > it degrades the sustainability of every one else on a computer. > > It appears that most software package designers, developers, maintainers, > distributors, and users manage to sustain positive productive coexistence. > > -- > Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada > > La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved > non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to > add > mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to > cut > -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry > > > -- > Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
